We gave the Coda Sedan electric vehicle decent enough marks when we took an early prototype for a Quick Spin last year. It looks like the performance-minded folks at Edmunds's Inside Line weren't so charitable, however.

Inside Line found that the EV, which started deliveries in March, beat the competing Nissan Leaf in both 0-to-60 miles per hour acceleration time (9.7 vs. 10.2 seconds) and quarter-mile time (14.6 vs. 17.5 seconds). Not too surprising, since the Coda has more horsepower than the Leaf. It also costs a few thousand more.

That's the good news. The bad news is that Inside Line found the Sedan's tire noise "remarkably loud," discovered the brakes weren't great (and got radically worse with successive stops) and said its vehicle control system, which cuts power and applies the brakes when the car is about to go into a slide, was "crude."

In March, the US Environmental Protection Agency said the Coda Sedan has a single-charge range of 88 miles, about 15 miles more than the Leaf. Los Angeles-based Coda says the EV can get up to 125 miles from a full battery pakc.

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Yeah . . . Coda did drop the price a bit and has a big battery in there for the price. But . . . that is a lot of money for a car and I guess I'd be a bit worried about the long-term picture. Of course who am I to talk? I picked up a Think City . . . a car from an already bankrupt company. But the net amount I paid was pretty low such if things go sour, I'm not out much money on it. (And actually, they just provided a free heater upgrade and a firmware upgrade that increased the speed of the car. I'm very very happy with the little Think City right now.)

Almost every comment at Inside Line was negative with a few resigned neutral comments thrown in. Yikes but everyone seems to hate this car. Personally I'm in the resigned neutral category myself. It sure isn't improving the perception of EV's in the world but I suppose it's another choice for those wanting an EV.